She is still receiving comments from people who are in a similar situation or those shocked and outraged at some of the comments directed at the girls.

But writing on her Facebook page recently, Ms Kelley-Wagner said it was never her intention to prove people were racist.

Instead she said she only wanted to show how ignorant people could be and that they should choose their words wisely.

Ms Kelley-Wagner, who lives in Virginia, said the project highlighted just some of the comments she and her daughters had heard or received over the years.

The comments ranged from bizarre ...Source:Supplied

Shocking things said to these adopted girlsSource:Supplied

“I have tried to explain to my daughters that people do not say these things to be mean, they say them out of ignorance, which is why I am sharing some of them. Words are powerful, they can become tools or weapons, choose to use them wisely,” she wrote on December 31.

The mum, who adopted her eldest daughter Liliana, 13, from China at 10 months and her sister Meika back in 2008, said she had been largely overwhelmed with messages of support for the project.

But she admitted some people had questioned why she did it, with one commentator even calling it cruel.

Liliana, 13, was adopted from China as a baby: Picture: Kim Kelley-Wagner ImagesSource:Facebook

And has received comments including this. Picture: Kim Kelley-Wagner ImagesSource:Supplied

In a later post, she said her family were never defined by the comments and both daughters were happy, confident and the loves of her life.

“Our intention in doing this project was to enlighten and educate; to hopefully remind us that words can build up, or tear down; that they are powerful and that we have a responsibility to use them wisely,” she wrote last week.

Liliana and her family have heard it all. Picture: Picture: Kim Kelley-Wagner ImagesSource:Facebook

And even this comment was made. Picture: Kim Kelley-Wagner ImagesSource:Facebook

“Not once have my daughters been brought low because of any comment made by a stranger, they realise that the things said are ignorant and treat them as such.”

Ms Kelley-Wagner said she had heard more positive comments than negative ones and these were said not just in her home town or in the southern states but from all over the US.

Meika, who was adopted from China in 2008, holds up a sign with one of the damaging commeSource:Facebook

The youngster was also adopted as a baby. Picture: Kim Kelley-Wagner ImagesSource:Facebook

“All, with the exception of one, were gleaned over the years from various parts of the east coast and Midwest; from Ohio to Florida, as well as various parts of Virginia, our home state,” she wrote.

“No one area of the country, or world for that matter, is free from ignorance or those lacking manners.”